Good morning! SOFREP’s Morning Brief is back with the latest insights on defense and global affairs for Sunday, June 8, 2025.

German military official says Ukrainian drone strikes significantly damaged Russia's bomber fleet and surveillance aircraft.

A 101st Airborne Division soldier who died after being injured in a rollover in Hungary was identified as an infantryman from ...

A military family in Alabama says they are hoping for the return of their items after their storage unit was accidentally ...

The deputy minister emphasized that it is through this prism that the Russian side "perceives the statements and actions of the German chancellor" ...

This November, the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team will commemorate 20 years since returning from its historic combat ...

It is also the starkest sign of the extraordinary turn taken by a country that took full receipt of the peace dividend after ...

This does not mean an end to transatlantic relations and pragmatic cooperation, as demonstrated by the meeting between the US ...

Germany will station 5,000 troops in Lithuania by 2027, marking its first permanent foreign deployment since WWII. The ...

Germany has begun its first permanent military deployment in another country, on NATO's eastern flank in Lithuania. The new German chancellor Friedrich Merz reviewed troops on parade in the ...

who are more skeptical of projecting military power," he said. Last month, Germany announced that it was deploying troops to Lithuania on a long-term basis—the first long-term deployment of ...

Germany's first permanent foreign troop deployment since World War II. Chancellor Friedrich Merz will attend the ceremonial roll call this week. While the German army previously consisted of eight ...